THX-1138

From: KRONOS <null@void.com>
Date: Thu, Aug 28, 2003

This is a movie set in the all-white, bald-headed future that is ours
to come. It is a cautionary tale of telescreens, alienation, robot
cops and an ambiguously hopeful ending that one should ponder. May god
have mercy on our souls.

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From: Jeff Spicoli <dude@tubes.com>

KRONOS wrote:
> This is a movie set in the all-white, bald-headed future that is ours
> to come. It is a cautionary tale of telescreens, alienation, robot
> cops and an ambiguously hopeful ending that one should ponder. May god
> have mercy on our souls.

Personally I like the Chris Cunningham version.

http://www.director-file.com/cunningham/521.html

Spicoli

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From: KRONOS <null@void.com>

I have this on my hard disk! robo-bjork makes love to another
robo-bjork. I'm getting a futuristic boner!

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From: joecosby@mindspring.com (Joe Cosby)

KRONOS <null@void.com> wrote in message news:<m0vfshs8w2.fsf@localhost.localdomain>...
> This is a movie set in the all-white, bald-headed future that is ours
> to come. It is a cautionary tale of telescreens, alienation, robot
> cops and an ambiguously hopeful ending that one should ponder. May god
> have mercy on our souls.

I feel the same way about "The Bad News Bears"

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From: "nu-monet v6.0" <nothing@succeeds.com>

KRONOS wrote:
> This is a movie set in the all-white,
> bald-headed future that is ours to come.
> It is a cautionary tale of telescreens,
> alienation, robot cops and an ambiguously
> hopeful ending that one should ponder. May
> god have mercy on our souls.

You realize, of course, that it was all caused
by Linux.

BTW, the motion picture was actually a re-make
of a student movie done by Lucas, snippets of
which are still around.

Can you guess which hierarch played one of the
extras? He only got about 5 seconds of screen
time, but it's obvious.

--
Rev. nu-monet
Founder and High Priest
Church of Kali, U.S.A. (Reformed)

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From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

Legume is the guy doing the beating on The Beating Channel in the
movie, if that's the one you mean.

--
4th Stangian Orthodox MegaFisTemple Lodge of the Wrath of Dobbs Yeti,
Resurrected (Rev. Ivan Stang, prop.)
PRABOB

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From: "nu-monet v6.0" <nothing@succeeds.com>

You're thinking of "Videodrome".

--
"Money can't buy you happiness,
but when you're poor, you can't
buy shit, and nobody will loan
you happiness."
--nu-monet

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From: KRONOS <null@void.com>

I wasn't, but now I am

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From: subspecies23@aol.comyourmom (SubSpecies23)

<< I love the crowded hall scenes where you can see the extras turning around
just at the edge of the frame to come back walking the other way to make it
look like there's more people than there really are. >>

I heard they used a similar method when filming the sex scenes.

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EVERY SQUARE FUCKDORK WITH A PIPE... *IS NOT "BOB"* -- Ivan Stang

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From: goldfingerjaws@aol.com (Goldfinger jaws)

"Rev. 11D Meow!" madgello@madgelloFNORDland.org
>what sex scenes?

You got to bitch about everything don't you?

Rev. KrustyMADfaker

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From: "Pretzelcoatl" <pretzel@coatl.atl>

Actually the original USC student film was released a few of years ago on
that now-defunct "Short" DVD "magazine" series. It's amusing enough for
being a clichéd artifact of the times, and for the ways in which you can see
nascent threads of SW, although the full-length THX film is much better. I
have no idea why one's mind retains gigs of useless trivia from long ago,
but here's one byte: In Star Wars (yes, that is its title,) there's that
scene where Han and everyone are about to rescue Leia. Over the console
intercom, a stormtrooper asks "TK-421, why aren't you at your post?" In the
book version that came out at the time, the line was "THX-1138, why aren't
you at your post?" These things stick in your mind when you're 12 years old
and still way into SF, I guess.

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From: Rev. Jenny Taylia, COTSG <netjunque@netscape.net>

On a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious day, after dancing about singing
"Bibbety bobbety boo!", Pretzelcoatl ishkabibbled:

^Actually the original USC student film was released a few of years ago on
^that now-defunct "Short" DVD "magazine" series. It's amusing enough for
^being a clichéd artifact of the times, and for the ways in which you can see
^nascent threads of SW, although the full-length THX film is much better. I
^have no idea why one's mind retains gigs of useless trivia from long ago,
^but here's one byte: In Star Wars (yes, that is its title,) there's that
^scene where Han and everyone are about to rescue Leia. Over the console
^intercom, a stormtrooper asks "TK-421, why aren't you at your post?" In the
^book version that came out at the time, the line was "THX-1138, why aren't
^you at your post?" These things stick in your mind when you're 12 years old
^and still way into SF, I guess.

Actually, somewheres in Star Wars there IS a verbal reference to THX-
1138 made at some other point in the script. I just can't place it
offhand, and I'm too damn lazy to scan the video right now. But I
remember it. Damn, I SHOULD, I only paid to see the movie 11 DIFFERENT
TIMES in the freakin theatre, and then who noes how many times I've
watched it since on home video, cable movie channels, etc etc.

Okay, time for some other SW fanatic to place that "THX-1138" ref for us
all! I'm going to sleep... where's my xanax?!?
--
The Reverant Jenny Taylia, Esq.
Church of the SubGenius, UnOrthodox
Superior Mutha Superior of the Little Sistahs of the
Politically Incorrect
PRACONNIE

"Give me Slack, or give me food!"
--J. R "BoB" Dobbs
SSS ALL YOUR SLACK ARE BELONG TO US SSS

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From: Joe Cosby <joecosby@SPAMBLOCKmindspring.com>

When they're bringing Chewbacca into the prison complex, Han says
"transfer from cell block THX-1138"

Somewhere around there anyway.

Or maybe it's just from 1138.

--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.home.mindspring.com

30 QUATLOOS ON THE EARTHLING

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From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

nu-monet v6.0 <nothing@succeeds.com> wrote:
> Rev. Ivan Stang wrote:
> >
> > Legume is the guy doing the beating on The Beating
> > Channel in the movie, if that's the one you mean.
> >
>
> You're thinking of "Videodrome".

No. In THX there are two TV shows -- the Fuck Show and the Beating
Show. In one scene, while fleeing the Man, our hero THX stumbles into
the studio where The Beating Show (my name for it) is shot, and has an
altercation with the guy in the Beater costume.

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From: "nu-monet v6.0" <nothing@succeeds.com>

Rev. Ivan Stang wrote:
>
>
> No. In THX there are two TV shows -- the
> Fuck Show and the Beating Show.

So, that would be what?

The Playboy Channel and FOX News?

--
"I can imagine a LOT when it comes
to unimaginable power."
-- nu-monet

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From: SubGenius Spice <sgspice@ziplip.com>

there's a difference?

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